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Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. History tells us Chamberlain’s foreign policy paved the way for World War II. Many believe the Democratic Party and Majority Whip Dick Durbin’s outreach to Islamic fundamentalism may have a similar result.

Just weeks after House Republicans held a hearing looking at the dangers of radical Muslims in the U.S. House, Senate Democrats are countering with a hearing of their own to examine Muslims’ civil rights. It is scheduled for after Congress returns from a 10-day vacation,

Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, announced the subcommittee hearing Tuesday, saying there has been a spike in anti-Muslim bigotry in the last year that demands closer attention.

Is this the 21st Century reincarnation of Chamberlain’s “Peace Through Appeasement”? Is the 1938 conceding of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany comparable to the Obama Administration’s support for giving up the West Bank to Muslim control?

Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois, is the Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s new subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and human rights, which Democrats created this year. Durbin has scheduled the hearing to determine if the Republican hearings have offended the sensitivities of Muslims – specifically Islamic fundamentalists worldwide. The hearings will be the first ever before the Judiciary Committee’s new subcommittee.

“Our Constitution protects the free exercise of religion for all Americans,” Durbin said. “During the course of our history, many religions have faced intolerance. It is important for our generation to renew our founding charter’s commitment to religious diversity and to protect the liberties guaranteed by our Bill of Rights.”

Yeah, right.

Earlier this month House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, New York Republican, held the first in what he said will be a series of hearings to look at problems posed by radicalized Muslims in the United States.

In 2009, the latest FBI statistics available, anti-Islamic hate crimes accounted for 9.3percent of the 1,376 religiously motivated hate crimes recorded. That’s far less than the 70.1 percent that were anti-Jewish.

It is interesting to note that appeasement did nothing to stop Germany’s assault on neighboring countries. Adolf Hitler continued his aggression by invading Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War. The people of Britain then threw Chamberlain out of office and elected a common sense patriot in his place, Winston Churchill.